Friday, March 18, 2011

I have FO's !! I finished the Stockholm scarf and both the Bella's mittens and hat :) no pices as usual but hopefully that will change.

I started on a little lace shawl called Lazy Katy a cleverly constructed but easy and it shows off the long stripes in my Cranberry Zauberball perfectly. I am using mods that I found on Ravelry to omit the double row of eyelets that are on the shorter end of the shawl edging and it looks good so far. I think this will be finished soon as it is knit on 4.5 mm needles.

I am also looking my stash for other projects and there are a few that I am thinking about, I feel the need for something beaded so probably a shawl of some sort.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

For those of you who know my personally and probably others too, you know that I can't knit or spin without watching or listening to something. Right now I am alternating between watching lots os Scifi TV series and Video Podcasts. I

just finished a watching Firefly again and still trying to figure out why there was only one season it is such a great show. Before that I watched all the Stargate series SG1, Atlantis and now I am watching SGU as it runs.

As for Video Podcasts I try to keep up with them but there are so many new cropping up that I probably don't know about yet. My all time fav and one of the longes running is Round The Twist with Carin. I love her show and it always inspires my to knit, lucky for me she is on a yarn diet so no temptations there as I am on one myself.

If you have not tryed those type of podcasts I highly recommend them as they are fun and you always see some new things and watching what other people are knitting is also alway inspiring.Most of thoes shows have Ravelry groups and are on Itunes as well for those of you who prefer that. I usually just watch them on the blogsites.

As for knitting I am still working on the Stockholm Scarf but I am at the finishing line, the laceweight of doom is not getting much love but I am almost done with the first strand of the 3. I intend to take a brake between the strands and next up will probably be singles spun from some Falkland top dyed by Feltstudio here in the UK. I got this and 2 others of her tops at Woolfest last year so it is high time for them to be spun. David's fiber club from SCF is on it's way from Australia and I am looking forward to that as usual. My friend Jacqui who runs Spinning a Yarn is also having a fiber update later this month and I snagged one braid of super sorted BFL from ther at the last Spin A Rosie. I loveh her fiber and have a plastic box nearly full of it :)

Monday, March 14, 2011

After 3 years of not blogging I am finally going to revive the blog! mostly for me to keep tally of what I am doing and hopefully get some pictures on. That is not going to happen for a while as my camera is not working :(

I moved to England at the start of last year so now I am much closer to a spinning community witch is great and I have made great friends here and living in England is generally wonderful. I miss my kids of course and my mum and my friends but a change is a good thing and being away from Iceland makes you see what is happening over there in a whole other light than when your sitting in the middle of all the scandals and corruption following the economic crash.

But back to knitting, this is my list of finished objects of the year since I came back from my Christmas holiday in Iceland on the 8th of January:

Lopisweater Hermann

Lopi

Lopisweater Sonja

Lopi

Lopisweater Hulda

Lopi

Lopisweater Abbie 6 years

Lopi

Lopisweater Ben 8 years

Lopi

Merit Beret Kiz

Lopi

Thorpe Chris

Lopi

Hat Ben

Lopi

Hat Abbie

Lopi

Hat Harrison

Lopi

Hat Evie

Lopi

Hat Henri

Lopi

Merit Beret Sonja

Lopi

Merit Beret Hulda

Lopi

Hat Hermann

Lopi

Hat Elli

Lopi

Mittens Ben

misc

Mittens Abbie

misc

Mittens Harrison

misc

Mittens Evie

misc

Mittens Hermann

Lopi

Mittens Elli

Lopi

Shawl Haruni with 16 rows extra repeats

Polwarth Handspun Antartica SCF

Merit Beret Agusta

Handspun

Fair Isle mittens form a kit

Finnish wool

Tea Cosy from Ring A Rosie

Merino and glimmer yarns

Cardigan from Drops bluegreen

Merino Extra Fine Tebe yarn

Cardigan from Dropsred

Merino Extra Fine Tebe yarn

Merit Beret for Sonjas mum

Lopi

I have also been spinning a lot and this is my tally for the same period:

My handdyed Shetland in red

Bulky

2 ply

80

yards

My handdyed BFL green and orange

Fingering

Singles

215

yards

SCF Polwarth Antartica blue/greenish

Heavy Lace

2 ply

540

yards

Commercial silk merino rose

Fingering

N plyed

425

yards

Merino Singles multicolored primary colors

Fingering

Singles

382

yards

Lunabudknits BFL Ace green/brown/pink

Worsted

2 ply

170

yards

Downland SAY purple/red/yeallow

Fingering

N plyed

245

yards

Downland SAY green/blues/yellow

Fingering

N plyed

332

yards

Corridale SAY gray/brown/orange

Fingering

N plyed

213

yards

Camel/Silk from Jaquie mother of pearl

DK

2 ply

186

yards

Organic Merino Cosmopolitan SCF

Fingering

Singles

472

yards

Merino/Tensel The Yarn Yard red/pink

Fingering

N plyed

302

yards

Probably MerinoPink/green/brown

DK

2 ply

146

yards

Merino Singlespink browns greens

Fingering

Singles

235

yards

Merino Multicolored

Lace

2 ply

835

yards

Probably MerinoPink/green/brown

Worsted

2 ply

298

yards

Lunabudknits batt with all kinds of fiber

Lace

2 ply

561

yards

BFL and Silk peackoc

DK

2 ply

194

yards

Downland SAY yelow/red/orrange

Fingering

3 ply

284

yards

Superwash merino red yellow orange black

Fingering

3 ply

478

yards

SAY Shetland in blues - blue merino

Bulky

3 ply

388

yards

Total

6981

On my needles now is a Stockholm Scarf of Sonja my sons Hermann's GF and a Tappan Zee cardi for me in burnt orange. On the wheel is a batt from SCF that I am spinning into 1300 yards single for one of 3 plyes of fingering weight to knit the Galadriels Mirror Shawl in a KAL in the SCF group on Ravelry.